United Kingdom, military

Healey, Time of My Life, pp. 193-4, 198-9, 224-48, 252 Broadbent, Military and Government, p. 30. Broadbent was Healey s private secretary. For the development of the Ministry of Defence, see Peter Nailor, The Ministry of Defence, 1959-70 , in P. Smith (ed.). Government and the Armed Forces, pp. 9-248, and Adrian Smith, Command and control in postwar Britain defence decision-making in the United Kingdom, 1945—1984 , Twentieth Century British History, 2 (1991), 291-327. 

Why was defence expenditure a prominent target for economies from the mid-1950s The most obvious reason was that military personnel had to be maintained abroad and were a direct charge on the United Kingdom balance of payments. As table 6.4 shows, there was a marked reduction in the numbers of personnel overseas between 1955 and the... 

In the United Kingdom both commercial and military ammunition used primers that were both mercuric and corrosive, until the gradual changeover to NCNM primers which was completed during the mid-1950s and early 1960s. 

There is a fast lane for new drug approvals if the product is already in at least one of the following jurisdictions the United Kingdom, Canada, United States, Sweden, or Australia. Approxmately 85% (by value) of pharmaceuticals go through the nearly 3,000 community pharmacies. Yet, approxmately 80% of the population rely on the public sector for drugs, received through clinics, hospitals, primary care posts, or military facilities. Although there is a 20-year patent period of exclusivity/protection, the parallel imports option effectively defeats this protection. 

A great deal of work has been done and is still carried out on the development of environmental tests especially for coatings on glass and plastics for example, US Military specifications, United Kingdom specifications for aircraft equipment, British Standard Institute specifications, German DIN specification, etc. This has already resulted in a number of specifications which are equivalent to the most severe conditions ever likely to be met in both tropical and polar climates. The most often used test specifications are summarized in Table 8a. 

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